Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills

A dangerous 20-kilometre-stretch of the road likely won't be getting any slower.  50 people have died between Western Hutt Rd and Kaitoke since 1987. The Transport Agency has been looking at how to eliminate fatal crashes and found lowering the speed limit would help, and made a submission. But the council has said no to lowering the speed limit Upper Hutt Mayor Wayne Guppy says that will be a che...

Wellington City Council is closing the public space at Shelly Bay from 6pm today and has asked protesters there to move. It's been occupied by Mau Whenua for a year. The group claims the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust went against the will of its people when it sold its land for development and that the deal was done in secret. Last week Shelly Bay Ltd served the occupants with a notice to...

Tuesday Business: New Zealand Herald Wellington Business Editor Hamish Rutherford talks net migration, which has fallen to the lowest level since 2012 and when the border reopens, will we have a brain drain? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From proposed changes on Cobham Drive to the removal of car parks in Thorndon, Wellingtonians have voiced frustration and confusion over Let's Get Wellington Moving.  Let's Get Wellington Moving's Programme Director David Dunlop joined Wellington Mornings to answer listeners' questions on the project. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monday Political Panel: Labour MP for Ōhāriu Greg O'Connor and Wellington-based MP Nicola Willis talk ACT Party leader David Seymour's call for a testing alternative to vaccine mandates, anti-vaxx protests, COP26 has been called a failure by advocates and how do we make SH1 safer south on Levin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Author and Researcher Max Rashbrooke is voicing concern over the growing gap between rich and poor.  "It's pretty striking. The wealthiest 1% of New Zealanders own about a quarter of the country: houses, businesses, and land. So, it doesn't leave much left over for the rest of the country" Rashbrooke warns those wealthy people could become insular and detached from how normal Kiwis live.  "If they...

This week on Friday Faceoff: Former International Footballer and Busines Owner Raf de Gregorio and World Wildlife Fund NZ CEO Livia Esterhazy talk Labour's result in the latest political poll, the Council has agreed on a solution for the Island Bay Cycleway, and are we seeing a rise in hostility aggressive people and what's the best way to deal with it? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...

A Wellington lawyer says the Three Strikes Law did not do what we were told it would do. The Government's scrapping the law created by Act in the National-lead coalition Government 11 years ago. It meant people convicted of a third serious violent, sex or drug offence should get the maximum sentence without parole. Criminal barrister Elizabeth Hall told Nick Mills the terrible law shouldn't have p...

The Beehive Buzz: Newstalk ZB's chief political editor Jason Walls gives Wellington Mornings the latest on APEC, Ardern's visit to Auckland and what it was like when a major protest saw Parliament lockdown earlier this week. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's Music Time, James discusses the passing of a reggae legend and Nick discovers what "Toasting" is,  they introduce a new segment called second hand songs where they dissect the back story of a chart topper that we can all hum along to but didn't realise  was written and released by someone else. And finally, have you got this hugely popular LP that could net you $150 with "cash in th...

Tuesday Business Panel: Steve Sanderson, Wellington Airport's CEO, and Vance Vivian Owner Hamish Vance talk issues in the capital and how to get through them with Nick Mills on Wellington Mornings. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kāpiti's mayor is demanding urgent safety action to fix the "killing fields" stretch of State Highway 1 where four people died yesterday. Four people died in the crash involving a truck and a van south of Levin yesterday. Kāpiti Coast Mayor K Gurunathan described the stretch of State Highway 1 between Ōtaki and Levin as the "killing fields highway". Horowhenua Mayor Bernie Wanden is joining that c...

Inland Revenue has started writing to hundreds of New Zealanders it believes have a net worth of at least $20 million indicating it wants details of exactly what they own, and warned it will check the answers against those of their spouse. New Zealand Herald Wellington Business editor Hamish Rutherford gives Nick Mills the inside word. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are calls for Shelly Bay occupiers to move off the land so developers can move forward. The Mau Whenua group has been occupying the site since November last year, protesting the legality of the land sale to the Wellington Company. The latest development in the saga happened yesterday when occupiers were served with a notice to vacate the whenua within seven days. Port Nicholson Block Settlem...

Monday Political Panel: Labour MP Kieran McAnulty and National MP Nicola Willis talk the uncertainty around Christmas, calls to change our migration policy, and the PM has been accused of using taxpayer money to poll Facebook posts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Friday Faceoff: Former Chief of Staff to Jacinda Ardern and managing director of Capital Government Relations Neale Jones and Wellington City Councillor Nicola Young on euthanasia legal on Sunday, Transmission Gully, Let's Get Wellington Moving, Anti-vaxxers disrupting the PM's pressers and Wellington's Central Library. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two options have been revealed to fix Island Bay's botched cycleway, five years after it was first completed.  A short-term fix would remove 101 residential car parks by April next year... at a cost of $2-$3million dollars.  The other improvement is more long term.  It would see the removal of 71 residential carparks and 15 in the town centre - and cost up to $14 million dollars.  Wellington City...

This week on the Beehive Buzz with Newstalk ZB Chief Political Reporter Jason Walls: What on earth is happening with Covid and Christmas, why did Climate Change Minister James Shaw miss a big announcement at COP26 and the upcoming Labour Party conference. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CoreLogic’s House Price Index shows Wellington has topped the main centres for house price growth over the past year. Houses now average just over 1.1 million dollars in the capital. Greater Wellington also saw major growth with the Kapiti Coast and Lower Hutt's average house prices rising by nearly 40 percent over the same period. This week on Money Talks, Mortgage Ability's Marcus Hull give you...

A commuter parking levy is being investigated for Wellington of up to $2,500 per car park. Details of what a levy could look like have been revealed in documents proactively released by Let's Get Wellington Moving. The aim of the levy is to reduce the number of commuters driving into the CBD and parking in the morning peak-hour traffic period. If implemented, a levy could result in 4,500 fewer of...

Tuesday Business: In a major speech this morning Adrian Orr has warned again that house prices are "unsustainable", statistics New Zealand will tomorrow release a survey giving us the latest picture of the jobs market and today is the final day of the Commerce Commission's hearings into the grocery industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wellington Mornings host Nick Mills catches up with Horse Racing Personality Des Coppins ahead of the running of the Melbourne Cup. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are hopes a new online tool will not only help address crime in Wellington but its causes. Wellington City Council has launched an interactive map, where residents can pinpoint areas they've experienced or witnessed harm or felt unsafe. The map also records graffiti and dark places.  City Councillor Tamatha Paul told Nick Mills the data will help to pick up trends and patterns where people f...

Monday Political Panel: Kieran McAnulty Labour MP for the Wairarapa and Wellington-based National Party MP Nicola Willis on announcement NZ will halve net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, COP26 is underway in Glasgow, MIQ escapees, should we have a domestic no-jab no-fly policy, and the National Party call for an inquiry into the Government's latest covid response. See omnystudio.com/listener for...

Friday Face-Off: Informetrics Principal Economist Brad Olsen and Lawyer Brigitte Morten talk shorter MIQ stay, Three Waters reforms causing a splash, new no jab no job rules, and were Wellington City Councillors right to split a retried councillors salary between themselves instead of getting a new colleague or giving the money away? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.